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In this AWS Startup Partner Spotlight, discover how Pepperdata empowers cloud-native startups to optimize their Kubernetes and Amazon EMR workloads in real time. With automated resource optimization, companies can reduce costs by an average of 30% while increasing utilization by up to 80%—without any manual tuning. Whether you're scaling rapidly or managing unpredictable workloads, Pepperdata ensures your infrastructure runs efficiently and cost-effectively from day one.

Your Infrastructure. Your Cloud. Anywhere. Introducing Virtual Providers—a powerful new way to turn any server or VM into part of your Cycle-managed private cloud. With just a bootable ISO generated from the Cycle platform, you can instantly bring bare metal or virtual machines online—no matter where they live. Cloud, colo, on-prem, edge, or even a server sitting in a closet. Once connected, Cycle handles the provisioning, updates, networking, and orchestration automatically.

Run Anything, Anywhere — Now Including Virtual Machines Cycle just got even more powerful. In this video, we're announcing full support for virtual machine workloads on the Cycle platform. That means containers, functions, and now VMs—running side by side, managed through the same automation, networking, and orchestration engine. Whether it's bare metal in a colo, VMs on a cloud provider, or hardware in a homelab, Cycle brings it all together into one global private cloud.

See how Komodor identifies underutilized nodes and offers cost optimization suggestions, ensuring your node autoscalers run efficiently and provide value without burdening with complicated investigations.

In this episode, Sid, CEO of Hathora, discusses building game infrastructure, specifically for hosting dedicated servers. He shares how Hathora tackles the challenges of running stateful, low-latency, high-throughput workloads that reconcile player actions up to 60 times per second. Sid explains their approach using Kubernetes to manage compute across bare metal and cloud VMs, leveraging technologies like Talos and Civo's Omni.